Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr., American

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. The Birth of the Father 1
4. The Dream 7
5. Cartwright, Dreaming Again 21
6. Across the Plains 26
7. Visions and Revisions 31
8. Paradise Bound 34
9. Paradise Found 37
10. The Last Gasp of the Great Sailing Ships 39
11. Missionary Baseball 41
12. Starting All Over Again: It’s Gonna Be Rough— but We’re Gonna Make It 47
13. The New Fire Chief 52
14. Freemasonry Comes to Hawaii 57
15. A Gift from the Sea—and a Loss 60
16. Back to Baseball 62
17. DeWitt and His Brothers 66
18. Cartwright & Co., Ltd. 72
19. Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr., American 74
20. The Social Whirl 78
21. Advisor to the Queen 82
22. Deaths and New Life 86
23. King Sugar 92
24. Baseball on the Plantations 100
25. Spalding’s World Tour—First Stop, Hawaii 105
26. The Final Dissolving 113
27. Cartwright’s Second Life: Myth Into History 117
28. Appendix 1: Chronology of the Life of Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. 123
29. Appendix 2: Did Cartwright “Really Invent” Baseball? Or, How Did the Game Evolve Before He Arrived? A Short Survey of Two Vexed Questions 126
30. Notes and References 135
31. Acknowledgments 147
32. Index 149